According to Lieutenant-Commander Data the problem will solve itself when TV exists as a medium "around the 2050". i.e. Most problems just disappear or become unimportant if you wait long enough.
>>>I'm not sure that the FCC has the power without being given it to regulate that.
The FCC has the power to censor speech (bad words) in direct violation of the Supreme Law of the land. If they can do that, then yes they can regulate commercial speech and limit the volume on ads. .
>>>right now...the Republicans have vowed to pretty much shut down the Federal government
The Republicans are still the minority party "right now". So the Democrats should be able to pass anything they wish with their ~60% majority, and your excuse doesn't fly.
Well I for one am glad Congress is passing this valuable law.
It's not as if they have any more important issues like extending Common Carrier status to ISPs, or ending the ridiculous overseas war, or saving the Dollar from losing 50% of its value over the next decade, or auditing the Fed to find out where the ~2000 billion went, or providing poor people with School Choice to get a decent education, or stopping the TSA from sexually assaulting citizens.
Since the Democratic Congress has done all that - then sure - go ahead and fix the volume on my coma-inducing box. Peas and Thx
One flaw with the television "market" is that only 4000 homes out of 105 million are monitored.
So if those 4000 homes don't express displeasure because of commercial volume, then it simply doesn't register, even if most people have already-quit the loud stations. Nielsen Ratings needs to come-up with a better system. Maybe increase from 4000 to 40,000 monitored homes, for better accuracy, instead of sticking with a system they developed in the 1960s.
Well what else would I listen to during my work hours? The only streaming audio not blocked are WMP files, so I'm limited in my options. I'm open to alternative suggestions if ye have some.
Google News is already censoring certain websites (like infowars) that it doesn't like - upto last week Infowars was part of the daily G-News summary but not anymore. And on their youtube site Google is yanking videos "because criticizing the president violates community standards" or "video of US soldiers killing journalists/children is not acceptable". It's censorship. There's no other words for it.
:-|
How much does it cost to set-up my own Web Hosting Engine? I'd gladly host wikileaks regardless of pressure placed on me by Presidents Bush or Obama or Cheney.
I switched my default search engine to Yahoo. I'm boycotting MS Bing and Google.
Well yeah... they restored it after a Lawsuit was filed by the filmmaker (in August).
Otherwise it would not be there; Google's youtube censored it by claiming "criticisms of the president violate community standards". I've seen the image of the letter online.
But that's okay. Just blindly believe Google is "the awesome" like those who are fanboys of the Microsoft Monopoly that uses "embrace - extend - exterminate" to eliminate the competition.
Yeah they worked better than Innerweb Exploder. In fact the Firefox and Thunderbird you love so much originated as Netscape spinoffs. And Mozilla/SeaMonkey uses the same codebase as FF and TB.
Good point about Opera being "different", although I do like their "Link" function which stores bookmarks online so you can access them from anywhere (home, work, on the road). Also "Turbo" is great for surfing on slow phone or cell connections.
>>>we'll also never be able to play the majority of PC games ever again.
Haven't been able to play a PC game since I got rid of my Commodore Amiga. I tried gaming on IBM PCs but making the software & hardware work together never worked, so I quit out of frustration. Maybe it's better now but back in the days of DOS/Windows98 it was hell.
So in other words: Switching to Linux is no loss for me.
"About $7 billion of that came in the form of a straight-up, low-interest loan. And about $13 billion came in the form of an escrow account. So how has GM, which lost $38 billion in 2007 even as it sold 9.4 million cars, paid back its debt? It took money from the escrow account to pay back the $7 billion loan."
In other words, GM still owes ~$20 billion to the People. They lied in their ads when they said they repaid the money. (Gee... I'm shocked.)
As for losing money on the Volts, I remember hearing the exact-same thing about Priuses when they were introduced. Toyota was supposedly losing ~$5000 on each one but then in 2004 they announced they were "breaking even" and now they are making a nice profit on each one. GM's Volt will follow the same path if it succeeds, or else be a giant waste of money if it fails (like EV1 was). .
>>>The Leaf is more innovative because it changes how we think about cars. It forces you to actually think about driving, instead of just going because you can.
The Honda Insight & Civic Hybrids were the same deal - made you think about driving to get 60-90 MPG - while the Toyota Prius averaged just 40-50 MPG but also felt like any other car (it was automatic). The Prius sold ~10 times as many units than Honda's hybrids, precisely because customers DON'T want the car to feel different. They want a hybrid that feels just like their old car.
>>>>What I don't get it is why so many people automatically assume the prosecution lied and there can be no other explanation
Because that's Modus Operandi for the soulless, moral-free entities known as corporations. They lie to us all the time. There's no reason to think they suddenly became angels when they routinely act like devils.
Unlikely. I suspect this is the backroom conversation that went on: PROSECUTOR: "We need to drop this case like a hot potato. We're going to lose and don't want that precedent." ESASPY: "How?" PRO: "Tell them you inserted a pirated CD into the Xbox. I can then argue that new information was not shared w/ the defense and serve motion to dismiss this lousy case." SPY: "But that's a lie. I never put a CD into the modded console." PRO: "You're point?"
Well at least I'm in good company. Thomas Jefferson was no dummy, with an estimated IQ of 160, and he agreed with what I said in my post. So do you think Mr. Jefferson was "dense" too, Mr. Insulter???
"Certainly there is not a word in the Constitution which has given that power to them more than to the Executive or Legislative branches." --Thomas Jefferson, 1815. "The Constitution... meant that its coordinate branches should be checks on each other. But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch." --Thomas Jefferson, 1804.
"To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves." --Thomas Jefferson, 1820.
"This member of the Government was at first considered as the most harmless and helpless of all its organs. But it has proved that the power of declaring what the law is, ad libitum, by sapping and mining slyly and without alarm the foundations of the Constitution, can do what open force would not dare to attempt." --Thomas Jefferson, 1825
In other words, The Supreme Court has NO authority to overrule a law duly passed by the Congress, and signed by the Executive. "But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union, assembled by their deputies in convention, at the call of Congress or of two-thirds of the States. Let them decide to which they mean to give an authority claimed by two of their organs." --Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823.
Jefferson also advocated using the Tenth Amendment to nullify unconstitutional laws.
Could I replace your Thunderbird with SeaMonkey/Mozilla Suite or Opera? (SM == firefox and thunderbird merged into one) (Opera == nordic)
I like web-mail because it's allowed me to keep the same address since 1997. I've been through PSU, Erols, MSN, AOL/Netscape, and now Verizon ISPs but my address remains the same regardless.
I don't have protection either, and I know I have viruses, but I just don't care.
"C'mere honey."
But seriously, it can happen even to the observant. This morning I installed VLC Media Player or what I *thought* was VLC, but the.exe didn't do anything. Just beep and make a "Registry changed. Approve or Deny?" window pop up. Probably a trojan. Good thing TeaTimer caught it.
Jackasses. I hate when MS or Apple does it to my machine - I certainly don't want some other company does it either. Which reminds me: Why is there a Microsoft Addon sitting in my Firefox & SeaMonkey browsers? I don't remember putting that there, and it doesn't uninstall.
>>>Pulseaudio works fine in Ubuntu if you follow the PerfectSetup
Programs that only work *conditionally* are crap. They should work regardless if the "setup" was done by a "perfect" programmer or a kid or a computer illiterate.
Not that I care. I've already switched to Lightweight Ubuntu and Puppy Linux. Both work a hell of a lot better on my ~666 MHz and 1500 MHz laptops then the default Gnome Ubuntu. Although one problem is I still haven't figured out how to use my Netscape Dialup or Web Accelerator (image compressor), but then neither was designed for non-windows computers.
Which is why Google Image now sucks. It used to be a great way to surf for nude images but not anymore - slow as snails. Wish I could drop back to the old html page.
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According to Lieutenant-Commander Data the problem will solve itself when TV exists as a medium "around the 2050". i.e. Most problems just disappear or become unimportant if you wait long enough.
>>>I'm not sure that the FCC has the power without being given it to regulate that.
The FCC has the power to censor speech (bad words) in direct violation of the Supreme Law of the land. If they can do that, then yes they can regulate commercial speech and limit the volume on ads.
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>>>right now...the Republicans have vowed to pretty much shut down the Federal government
The Republicans are still the minority party "right now". So the Democrats should be able to pass anything they wish with their ~60% majority, and your excuse doesn't fly.
Well I for one am glad Congress is passing this valuable law.
It's not as if they have any more important issues like extending Common Carrier status to ISPs, or ending the ridiculous overseas war, or saving the Dollar from losing 50% of its value over the next decade, or auditing the Fed to find out where the ~2000 billion went, or providing poor people with School Choice to get a decent education, or stopping the TSA from sexually assaulting citizens.
Since the Democratic Congress has done all that - then sure - go ahead and fix the volume on my coma-inducing box. Peas and Thx
One flaw with the television "market" is that only 4000 homes out of 105 million are monitored.
So if those 4000 homes don't express displeasure because of commercial volume, then it simply doesn't register, even if most people have already-quit the loud stations. Nielsen Ratings needs to come-up with a better system. Maybe increase from 4000 to 40,000 monitored homes, for better accuracy, instead of sticking with a system they developed in the 1960s.
(1) blocked
(2) Would rather listen to information not mindless pap
I don't understand why people hate Email Ads so much.
All you have to do is filter them out.
It's not worth killing someone.
Now the head of the RIAA or MPAA - that's a different story. They are extortionists ("Pay $5000 or else we'll ruin you life"), and deserve to die.
>>>You listen to the stupid Alex Jones???
Well what else would I listen to during my work hours? The only streaming audio not blocked are WMP files, so I'm limited in my options. I'm open to alternative suggestions if ye have some.
Google News is already censoring certain websites (like infowars) that it doesn't like - upto last week Infowars was part of the daily G-News summary but not anymore. And on their youtube site Google is yanking videos "because criticizing the president violates community standards" or "video of US soldiers killing journalists/children is not acceptable". It's censorship. There's no other words for it.
:-|
How much does it cost to set-up my own Web Hosting Engine? I'd gladly host wikileaks regardless of pressure placed on me by Presidents Bush or Obama or Cheney.
I switched my default search engine to Yahoo. I'm boycotting MS Bing and Google.
Well yeah... they restored it after a Lawsuit was filed by the filmmaker (in August).
Otherwise it would not be there; Google's youtube censored it by claiming
"criticisms of the president violate community standards".
I've seen the image of the letter online.
But that's okay. Just blindly believe Google is "the awesome" like those who are fanboys of the Microsoft Monopoly that uses "embrace - extend - exterminate" to eliminate the competition.
>>>Remember the last versions of Netscape?
Yeah they worked better than Innerweb Exploder. In fact the Firefox and Thunderbird you love so much originated as Netscape spinoffs. And Mozilla/SeaMonkey uses the same codebase as FF and TB.
Good point about Opera being "different", although I do like their "Link" function which stores bookmarks online so you can access them from anywhere (home, work, on the road). Also "Turbo" is great for surfing on slow phone or cell connections.
>>>we'll also never be able to play the majority of PC games ever again.
Haven't been able to play a PC game since I got rid of my Commodore Amiga. I tried gaming on IBM PCs but making the software & hardware work together never worked, so I quit out of frustration. Maybe it's better now but back in the days of DOS/Windows98 it was hell.
So in other words: Switching to Linux is no loss for me.
Since nobody reads articles, I'll quote the link:
"About $7 billion of that came in the form of a straight-up, low-interest loan. And about $13 billion came in the form of an escrow account. So how has GM, which lost $38 billion in 2007 even as it sold 9.4 million cars, paid back its debt? It took money from the escrow account to pay back the $7 billion loan."
In other words, GM still owes ~$20 billion to the People.
They lied in their ads when they said they repaid the money.
(Gee... I'm shocked.)
As for losing money on the Volts, I remember hearing the exact-same thing about Priuses when they were introduced. Toyota was supposedly losing ~$5000 on each one but then in 2004 they announced they were "breaking even" and now they are making a nice profit on each one. GM's Volt will follow the same path if it succeeds, or else be a giant waste of money if it fails (like EV1 was).
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>>>The Leaf is more innovative because it changes how we think about cars. It forces you to actually think about driving, instead of just going because you can.
The Honda Insight & Civic Hybrids were the same deal - made you think about driving to get 60-90 MPG - while the Toyota Prius averaged just 40-50 MPG but also felt like any other car (it was automatic). The Prius sold ~10 times as many units than Honda's hybrids, precisely because customers DON'T want the car to feel different. They want a hybrid that feels just like their old car.
If Sellers can videotape us, why can't we tape them? A store is a public facility.
Also most states allow recording of conversations, as long as one party is aware the taping is happening.
I don't understand your complaint.
"Win-tel PC" or "Windows/Intel PC" is a perfectly good replacement to describe machines that were once known as IBM PC Compatibles.
>>>>What I don't get it is why so many people automatically assume the prosecution lied and there can be no other explanation
Because that's Modus Operandi for the soulless, moral-free entities known as corporations. They lie to us all the time. There's no reason to think they suddenly became angels when they routinely act like devils.
>>>the prosecutor did the right thing
Unlikely. I suspect this is the backroom conversation that went on:
PROSECUTOR: "We need to drop this case like a hot potato. We're going to lose and don't want that precedent."
ESASPY: "How?"
PRO: "Tell them you inserted a pirated CD into the Xbox. I can then argue that new information was not shared w/ the defense and serve motion to dismiss this lousy case."
SPY: "But that's a lie. I never put a CD into the modded console."
PRO: "You're point?"
>>>You're being dense
Well at least I'm in good company. Thomas Jefferson was no dummy, with an estimated IQ of 160, and he agreed with what I said in my post. So do you think Mr. Jefferson was "dense" too, Mr. Insulter???
"Certainly there is not a word in the Constitution which has given that power to them more than to the Executive or Legislative branches." --Thomas Jefferson, 1815. "The Constitution... meant that its coordinate branches should be checks on each other. But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch." --Thomas Jefferson, 1804.
"To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves." --Thomas Jefferson, 1820.
"This member of the Government was at first considered as the most harmless and helpless of all its organs. But it has proved that the power of declaring what the law is, ad libitum, by sapping and mining slyly and without alarm the foundations of the Constitution, can do what open force would not dare to attempt." --Thomas Jefferson, 1825
In other words, The Supreme Court has NO authority to overrule a law duly passed by the Congress, and signed by the Executive. "But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union, assembled by their deputies in convention, at the call of Congress or of two-thirds of the States. Let them decide to which they mean to give an authority claimed by two of their organs." --Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823.
Jefferson also advocated using the Tenth Amendment to nullify unconstitutional laws.
Yeah censorship of FOX is definitely the way to go.
Also maybe some attractive new uniforms for the Google staff, with a stylized "SS" on the arm.
Here you go: Download in 5 minutes and you'll never have problem with viruses again. Also runs in RAM (i.e. FASTmem now slowmem)
http://puppylinux.org/main/Download%20Latest%20Release.htm
(Puppy Lucid 10.0)
(runs on 1/10 gig)
Could I replace your Thunderbird with SeaMonkey/Mozilla Suite or Opera?
(SM == firefox and thunderbird merged into one)
(Opera == nordic)
I like web-mail because it's allowed me to keep the same address since 1997. I've been through PSU, Erols, MSN, AOL/Netscape, and now Verizon ISPs but my address remains the same regardless.
I don't have protection either, and I know I have viruses, but I just don't care.
"C'mere honey."
But seriously, it can happen even to the observant. This morning I installed VLC Media Player or what I *thought* was VLC, but the .exe didn't do anything. Just beep and make a "Registry changed. Approve or Deny?" window pop up. Probably a trojan. Good thing TeaTimer caught it.
How about NOT having forced updates?
Jackasses. I hate when MS or Apple does it to my machine - I certainly don't want some other company does it either. Which reminds me: Why is there a Microsoft Addon sitting in my Firefox & SeaMonkey browsers? I don't remember putting that there, and it doesn't uninstall.
"Litigious motherfuckers." - Penn Gilette
Yeah. Blame Canada.
Let them be the new world's policeman
now that the US is broke (~$140,000 per home).
>>>Pulseaudio works fine in Ubuntu if you follow the PerfectSetup
Programs that only work *conditionally* are crap. They should work regardless if the "setup" was done by a "perfect" programmer or a kid or a computer illiterate.
Not that I care. I've already switched to Lightweight Ubuntu and Puppy Linux. Both work a hell of a lot better on my ~666 MHz and 1500 MHz laptops then the default Gnome Ubuntu. Although one problem is I still haven't figured out how to use my Netscape Dialup or Web Accelerator (image compressor), but then neither was designed for non-windows computers.
+1 informative.
Which is why Google Image now sucks.
It used to be a great way to surf for nude images but not anymore - slow as snails.
Wish I could drop back to the old html page.